Anne Berry, PORTRAITS Honorable Mention

(c) Anny Berry

Anne Berry, from Newnan, GA, who has been juried into Slow E in the past, has received an honorable mention for her photograph, Monkey in Greenhouse, in the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops' Portrait photography contest!

From the website:

The portrait. Environmental, studio, candid, or posed. Self or pet, color, black-and-white, alternative process or iPhone. No matter what the genre, there’s a power in a well-captured portrait, a sense of breath and life. A portrait can comfort us, unnerve us, cause us to smile, or move us to tears. Whatever the emotional response, portraits possess the capacity to connect us all through shared encounters.  PORTRAITS inspired 960 photographers (from 32 countries) to submit 3743 images that embraced portraiture. Jurors Aline Smithson, Amber Terranova, Andrew Smith, and Reid Callanan reviewed this body of inspiring interpretations and chose 50 award-winning photographs.

 Congratulations, Anne, on such a wonderful recognition from your peers!

Anderson (Andy) Scott is Whistling Dixie

 

Whistling Dixie



Anderson Scott, advisory board member for Slow, has recently published a new book, Whistling Dixie, a photographic documentary of "latter-day Confederates at a series of reenactments" throughout the Southeast.  From the publisher:

Scott captures these latter-day Confederates at a series of reenactments in the years leading up to the 2011 sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Always maintaining the perspective of a keen and sometimes ambivalent observer, Scott’s photographs convey the earnestness and enthusiasm of this subculture while exposing its idiosyncrasies and contradictions.

"Thank God", 2004 3rd Place Winner

Scott’s photographs span the southern countryside, documenting reenactments in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and the Carolinas as well as living histories and Confederate Memorial Days. An essay by Scott, describing his experience at a reenactment of the Battle of Selma, and a cultural essay by J. Mills Thornton, professor emeritus University of Michigan, provide context for the photographs and the subculture of their subjects.

Andy has been juried into Slow Exposures several times, winning first, second, and third prizes in 2005, 2007, and 2004, respectively. 



Tim Barnwell, Photographer (& Slow E. Panelist!)

Tim Barnwell, of Barnwell Photography, will be joining Slow Exposures this year as a panelist for the Salon this fall.  From his website:

Tim Barnwell is a commercial and fine art photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina. His career has spanned over 25 years as both a professional photographer and a photography instructor, including eight years as executive director of the nationally recognized school, Appalachian Photographic Workshops (1980-1988).

His travelling photography exhibit, Hands in Harmony, a 30 image exploration of folk music and traditional handcrafts, is currently hanging at the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.  He is also offering two popular photography workshops in May, Basic Photo Image Management (May 15, 2 - 5:30PM) and Introduction to your Digital Camera (May 17, 2 - 5:30PM).

For information on Tim's exhibits or workshops, please contact Tim at barnwellphoto@hotmail.com. 

Magdalena Solé, from the Mississippi to Tohoku

Photograph © Magdalena Solé

Please accept my apologies for the sporadic postings lately, but the pecans have bloomed and they brought pollen (and allergies) galore!

That said, please take some time to read this interesting interview of Magdalena Solé by Elizabeth Avedon, on her new exhibit, After the Water Receded: Images from Japan.  Magdalena had several images juried into Slow Exposures in 2011 and will be returning this year to do a book signing.

Elizabeth Avedon came to Slow in 2011 to lecture on creating a photo book and will be returning this year to participate in the portfolio reviews!

Here's a link to the article on La Lettre de la Photographie.

 

UCCA Art Roundtable, with guest Elisabeth Biondi

Check out this UCCA Art Roundtable, with guest Elisabeth Biondi, who was a juror for Slow Exposures in 2011 and is returning this year to participate in the portfolio reviews.  Here's an excerpt from the the website:

What voice does the photographic image lend to the printed word? What is the relationship between imagery and text? From the stark commentary of photojournalism to unforgettable portraits of leaders and the lavish fantasy worlds created through fashion spreads, representatives from some of China’s strongest publications joins The New Yorker’s former visuals director Elisabeth Biondi to focus on the role of magazines as platforms for photographic work, whether to augment the reader’s experience or present pictorial statements compelling in their own right.

This program is in conjunction with Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker, on exhibition in UCCA’s central gallery 15 April – 10 June and is part of the 2012 Caochangdi Photospring Festival program.

Details:

Time:
April 29 (SUN)
13:00-15:00

Venue:
UCCA Auditorium
798 Art District
No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu
Chaoyang District,
Beijing, China 100015

Peter van Agtmael, Lunch & Learn

All photographs by Peter van Agtmael

Peter van Agtmael

On Sunday, September 23rd, 2012, Peter van Agtmael will be giving a Lunch and Learn to discuss his experiences while embedded with American troops in Iraq and Afganistan.

Van Agtmael graduated from Yale in 2003 and was awarded a grant to spend a year in China documenting the social and economic impact of the Three Gorges Dam. Following that, he travelled extensively in Africa photographing the AIDS epidemic through the experiences of one HIV-positive refugee.

In 2006, at just 24 years old, he began a series of embeds in Iraq and Afganistan and would spend the next two years capturing the war(s). Not content to leave it overseas, however, van Agtmael then followed the troops home, some in caskets, to continue their stories and the war at home. His book, 2nd Tour Hope I Don’t Die, relates the time he spent and the people he encountered on this assignment. The Life & Death of Matthew Ferrara is a brilliant example of this persistence.

Please check out Peter’s work, including his other great assignments (his photographs on tour with Jeff Bridges are wonderful) and then join us on September 23rd for his Lunch and Learn.

You can find the entire schedule of event for Slow Exposures 2012 on the website here.

Jo Lynn Still

Beautiful photograph by Jo Lynn Still, featured on La Lettre de le Photographie.  Jo Lynn's work has been featured as part of John Bennette's Southern Memories shows in 2010 and 2011.